Witzelsucht

Witzelsucht

n. a type of joking mania (German, literally: “compulsive wisecracking”), characterized by a morbid desire to tell poor jokes and meaningless stories, that can be a symptom of damage to the frontal lobe of the brain. See also moria.

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